Air-Gapped Cloud Architect Lead, EC2 Control Plane

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to lead architecture and technical direction for EC2 control-plane services in air-gapped regions. This role drives design decisions, deployment orchestration, and cross-team alignment to deliver scalable infrastructure for government cloud environments.

You will mentor engineers, define deployment strategies, and explore AI-enhanced automation to improve code quality and productivity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional).
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, reviews, source control, build processes, testing and operations.

Responsibilities

• Architect and define the technical direction for EC2 control-plane services, fleet health automation, and capacity tooling across air-gapped cloud environments.
• Own end-to-end design of deployment pipelines and deployment orchestration for disconnected regions, including deployment strategies, monitoring standards, and incident response frameworks.
• Influence cross-team roadmaps and align multiple teams on shared infrastructure goals, data quality standards, and tooling strategy while partnering with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Mentor and develop engineers across the team, conduct design and code reviews, and raise the technical bar for the organization.
• Evaluate opportunities to integrate generative AI tools and techniques to improve automation, code quality, and team productivity.

Skills

Mentoring

Architecture leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

CSSLP

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to lead architecture and technical direction for EC2 control-plane services in air-gapped regions. This role drives design decisions, deployment orchestration, and cross-team alignment to deliver scalable infrastructure for government cloud environments.

You will mentor engineers, define deployment strategies, and explore AI-enhanced automation to improve code quality and productivity.